JIRA is in some sort of "spam lockdown" state right now, so that affords me a few minutes to chime in on this thread.
I'm relatively new not only to HBase and big-data in general, but also to the whole open-source scene (coming from several decades of working solely in the proprietary realm with various legacy database technologies), so I very much appreciate the #beginners tagged issues, and above all I am very appreciative of the great, friendly, professional attitude that everybody I've worked with here has thus far displayed. There's always a natural tendency for a newby to feel intimidated by the inherent complexities of technologies like this; such sheer complexity is likely the chief "barrier to entry" of anyone considering joining in as a contributor. To me, this makes the positive attitudes on display here all the more valuable and appreciated -- so *thanks*! With regard to recruiting new contributors, I'll just toss out a question which I hope does not give offense: What can be done to encourage more gender-diversity in this project (and projects like it)? As I said, I come from a background of working in <http://treehouse.com/> and with <http://www.softwareag.com/> companies in the proprietary software realm, and as such I'm accustomed to working in environments in which males outnumber females (like with 60/40 or 70/30 majorities). But one shocking aspect of getting involved with this project was coming in and seeing only ONE woman's name come up among the current, active contributors. Perhaps all-male or almost-all-male projects are just the norm in most open-source projects? I don't imagine for a second that this project is actively and purposefully *excluding* women. I'm just wondering why (with one exception that I'm aware of) they're not here, and what could be done to effectively encourage them to join. -- Dan On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > There's a bit of extra information they'd like to describe the work > for new comers. I'd be happy if all of our beginner jiras ended up > listed, but that will take a fair bit of work. I suspect we'll get > better ROI if we can prioritize a little. > > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Nick Dimiduk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nifty. We already do this with the beginners (neé noobies) tag, right? > Just > > pipe them through? > > > > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi folks! > >> > >> ASF comdev has put up a great new tool for funneling in new folks: > >> > >> https://helpwanted.apache.org/ > >> > >> How about we brainstorm a few things here (maybe some beginner JIRAs > >> we can flesh out a little?) and then file? > >> > >> -Sean > >> > > > > -- > busbey >
